Drove up since I had a nasty cold. My companion was Sacha (redsplashman).

A year later, on 4-29-13, I hiked up via the Benham trail with Dennis Poulin and Rick Hartman. I felt much better about hiking this one rather than just driving up the thing. Lots of towers on top but that can be expected on some of these mountains that tower above the other stuff.

Thought it would be a cool idea to hike up the NE facing powerline scar and ski down. Well, the scar has tons and tons of undergrowth and lots of huge boulders. Aside from a few powder turns, we did not find that it was a great ski descent and had to hike down in most places due to crummy snow conditions

Of the 3 times I have done this hike I have always had lousy weather. Thats probably because I do it in winter. 2 of the 3 times it snowed on me. The views are nice though, but you have to get past the towers.

Summitted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003. Quite windy at the top, especially when climbing the Fire Look Out ladder. Used the hike as a warm-up for Humphreys Peak which I summitted the next day.

I got started a little later than I had hoped, and spent a little too much time at the summitt talking to guy in the look out cabin. I was glad I brought along my headlamp as the sun set before I reached my car.